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Capitulation at Columbia: The Democrats enable Trump’s assault on free speech
The university’s prostration before Trump is a warning that no section of the ruling class is capable of defending democratic rights.
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Video footage of the horrifying incident has circulated widely. Hathalin, 31, was a teacher from Masafer Yatta in the South Hebron Hills, who played a supporting role in No Other Land.
David Walsh•
The Israeli government, the B’Tselem states, is advancing “an agenda of Jewish supremacy, destruction, and expulsion.”
Jean Shaoul•
The following resolution was unanimously supported by workers and young people at the public hearing in Detroit on Sunday, July 27.
Our reporters•
As cuts are handed down, Chicago teachers are furious over denial of backpay owed from last year after their contract agreement was months-delayed.
Kristina Betinis•
The treaty marks an escalation of the preparations for war against China, accompanied by an aggressive reassertion of the role of British imperialism in the Indo-Pacific region.
Mike Head•
The government’s police-state measure again demonstrates Labor’s support for the genocidal Zionist state and its determination to suppress mass opposition to war crimes.
Oscar Grenfell•
The refusal of the UFCW to release a statement, much less defend any of the workers facing immediate deportation, underscores that it is not a union organized in defense of workers' economic, social and democratic rights but an organization of scabs operating on behalf of the corporations and government.
Jacob Crosse•
House Bill 595 gives landlords across the state the explicit right to refuse tenants who pay rent using Section 8 housing vouchers, Social Security, child support, disability payments or tipped income.
Julian Blackwood•
Korean American scientist and longtime US legal permanent resident Tae Heung Kim was detained by ICE on July 21 and has been denied both access to his attorney and communication with his family without explanation.
Kevin Reed•
Starmer’s policy is a recipe for a Palestinian state with no Palestinians in it, the myth of a “land without people” made real.
Robert Stevens•
The resident doctors strike is a decisive battle—not just over wages, but for the future of the National Health Service. They are confronting the Starmer government, the political establishment, and the media on behalf of the millions they serve in their frontline NHS role.
NHS FightBack•
Workers in the Caucasus and around the world need to be alert: Under the guise of an “economic corridor”, preparations are being made for bloody wars that will devastate the region’s peoples as US imperialism pushes forward its predatory plans.
Ozan Kutlucan, Ulaş Ateşçi•
The promotion of crypto is only the most egregious expression of the growth of financial speculation, parasitism and outright criminality.
Nick Beams•
The Thane of Bluster greets sycophants Starmer and Von der Leyen in Scotland
The US President's grotesqueries must not conceal the importance of the issues discussed between Trump, von der Leyen and Starmer, which pose a grave threat to working people all over the world.
Chris Marsden, Thomas Scripps•
Expand the campaign to free the imprisoned Ukrainian socialist Bogdan Syrotiuk!
We call upon all readers of the WSWS, supporters of democratic rights and opponents of imperialist war to respond to the ECHR’s decision to accept his case by expanding the campaign to free Bogdan.
Clara Weiss•
New COVID-19 variants surge as Kennedy escalates war on science
The Trump administration is slashing health agency budgets and firing vaccine experts as highly transmissible variants threaten to double daily infections within a month.
Benjamin Mateus, Evan Blake•
Mobilize the working class to stop the Gaza genocide!
The genocidal war in Gaza, waged by Israel with the full backing of the United States and its imperialist allies, can only be stopped through the unified and revolutionary action of the international working class.
WSWS Editorial Board•
Jacob Crosse•
Patrick Martin•
WSWS Editorial Board•
International Workers Alliance of Rank-and-File Committees•
Oscar Grenfell•
Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s Cloud: “Profiteering and revenge overlap and amplify…”
Everyone in Cloud is either a fraudster, a cynic, an opportunist or a psychopath. How accurate is that as a view of life in Japan, or anywhere else?
David Walsh•
On the death of German theatre director Claus Peymann: “War makes resistance necessary–art can do that”
Peymann's importance lay in the fact that he understood and defended the theatre as a politically and socially significant and indispensable institution, without making any artistic concessions
Sybille Fuchs•
Mahdi Fleifel’s To a Land Unknown: Palestinian refugees search for the land of milk and honey
Fleifel’s fiction film follows two undocumented Palestinian refugees and cousins, Reda and Chatila, who find themselves in Athens and make desperate efforts to reach Germany.
David Walsh•
An interview with Palestinian filmmaker Mahdi Fleifel, director of To a Land Unknown: “Do we want to actually respect and embrace our humanity?”
The WSWS spoke last year to filmmaker Mahdi Fleifel, the director of To a Land Unknown, in a video call.
David Walsh•
Marc Wells•
David Walsh•
David Walsh•
Benjamin Mateus•
Sandy English•
“Workers’ Lives Matter!”: IWA-RFC holds initial hearing on death of autoworker Ronald Adams Sr.
Approximately 100 workers and youth attended the hearing, which was addressed by members of the IWA-RFC and Shamenia Stewart-Adams, the widow of Ronald Adams, Sr.
Matt Brennan, Stephen St. Clair•
Ronald Adams Sr. and Brayan Neftali Otoniel Canu Joj: Workers’ lives sacrificed for profit
The sole reason for continued industrial slaughter, year after year, is the capitalist system. It has become an absolute barrier to human progress.
Tom Hall•
Support the IWA-RFC’s rank-and-file investigation into the death of autoworker Ronald Adams Sr.!
The Socialist Equality Party and the World Socialist Web Site support the call by the International Workers Alliance of Rank-and-File Committees (IWA-RFC) for an independent investigation—led by rank-and-file workers—into the entirely preventable death of Ronald Adams Sr.
WSWS Editorial Board•
Stellantis Sterling Stamping worker buried as questions remain over work-related death
The veteran worker was in the hospital for two weeks following an incident at work, the circumstances of which have not been explained by either management or the United Auto Workers.
Valery Tsekov•
Marc Wells, Tom Hall•
Jerry White•
David North•
Jerry White, George Kirby•
Andy Thompson, Zac Corrigan•
Support the Resident Doctors’ Strike! Defeat Starmer’s war on the NHS!
The resident doctors strike is a decisive battle—not just over wages, but for the future of the National Health Service. They are confronting the Starmer government, the political establishment, and the media on behalf of the millions they serve in their frontline NHS role.
NHS FightBack•
UFCW blocks Northern California Safeway strike with sellout deal
In a coordinated act of betrayal, the UFCW has blocked a historic Safeway strike by ramming through a secretive sellout deal that workers are being ordered to ratify sight unseen.
Marc Wells•
Auto industry crisis in Germany
Automotive supplier Segula files for insolvency: The tip of the iceberg
On July 9, Segula Technologies GmbH, based in Rüsselsheim, Germany filed for insolvency in self-administration with the Darmstadt Local Court. This means that a further 500 jobs for engineers, technicians and developers are at risk.
Marianne Arens•
Workers Struggles: The Americas
Some 34,000 provincial government workers in British Columbia are preparing for potential strike action in September, while nurses in Baltimore walked out July 24 to press demands for a contract with Ascension Saint Agnes.
Our reporters•
Mike Ingram•
Alex Findijs•
Postal Workers Rank-and-File Committee•
Relatives of the “missing” from Sri Lanka’s communal war speak out
Many Tamil families have spent decades searching for their loved ones and demanding the prosecution of the war criminals responsible.
P.T. Sampanthar•
UK and Australian Labor governments sign anti-China military treaty
The treaty marks an escalation of the preparations for war against China, accompanied by an aggressive reassertion of the role of British imperialism in the Indo-Pacific region.
Mike Head•
Australian Labor government threatens Signal encrypted messaging system
The Albanese government’s moves are attacking the existence of a vital free, open-source, encrypted communications platform used by millions of people worldwide.
Mike Head•
Australia: NTEU volunteers job cuts at Western Sydney University
The university management announced a “voluntary redundancy” scheme just a day after the National Tertiary Education Union revealed that it had made a similar proposal.
A WSU Rank-and-File Committee member•
Oscar Grenfell•
Peter Symonds•
Peter Symonds•
Our reporters•
Mike Head•
Ontario government seizes control of 4 school boards
Ontario’s right-wing Progressive Conservative government has taken over the running of four school boards in the Greater Toronto Area and Ottawa, in order to ram through massive budget cuts and sweeping attacks on workers’ rights.
Sterling Oliver•
Los Angeles Times investigation reveals deadly fire response failures
The investigation revealed a critical breakdown in the emergency response, bound up with the degradation of government services and the prioritisation of profit and the wealthy over mass social need.
Marc Wells•
Education Department probe of University of Michigan cites bogus “agroterrorism” claims against Chinese scholars
This investigation, like the June 18 congressional inquiry into “research security” at U-Mich, promotes witch-hunting claims against Chinese scientists associated with the university.
Stephen St. Clair•
With mega-mergers planned, US railroads face all-out attack on jobs and safety
As the carriers plan two significant mergers, the leadership of the rail unions is collaborating with management to withhold information and divide workers.
Erik Schreiber•
Samuel Davidson•
Jane Wise•
Marc Wells•
Jacob Crosse•
Marc Wells•
How the Democratic Socialists of America helped sell out the Philadelphia municipal workers’ strike
Throughout the strike and after, the DSA’s role was to provide left cover for the union leaders and the Democratic Party.
Nick Barrickman•
Philadelphia’s white collar city workers union rams through contract
The low turnout reflects a lack of confidence in the union leadership, which sought to contain the struggle.
Landon Gourov•
AFSCME rams through Philadelphia city workers contract in vote marked by low turnout
The low turnout was effectively a vote of no confidence in the union, which has been actively sabotaging the struggle since the beginning.
Nick Barrickman•
Following strike sellout, frustration grows among Philadelphia city workers, after union delays strike pay
There is growing anger among Philadelphia city workers as AFSCME District Council 33 fails to deliver promised strike stipends, compounding outrage over a sellout tentative agreement.
Nick Barrickman, Steve Light, Robert Milkowski•
Nick Barrickman, Tom Eley•
our reporters•
Philadelphia Workers Rank-and-File Strike Committee•
Nick Barrickman•
Tom Hall, Nick Barrickman•
Sri Lankan government’s phony “eradication of rural poverty” program
The only way out of poverty is in struggle against the Dissanayake government’s IMF austerity program and the entire capitalist system.
W.A. Sunil•
Sri Lanka’s corporate profits surge as IMF austerity deepens poverty
The Dissanayake government’s pro-IMF policies are enriching the corporate elites by driving millions into poverty and economic insecurity.
Saman Gunadasa•
Muslim youth detained for nine months in Sri Lanka under draconian anti-terror law
Suhail, 21, an aviation student from Mawanella, was arrested last year after being accused of posting an Instagram photo showing an Israeli flag being trampled.
Wimal Perera•
Trump slaps 30 percent tariff on Sri Lanka
The Sri Lankan trade union bureaucracies responded to Trump’s tariffs by assuring the government and big business of their willingness to cooperate.
Saman Gunadasa•
Our correspondents•
N. Ranges•
Wilani Peiris, Rohantha De Silva•
Saman Gunadasa•
Our correspondents•
World court’s “advisory opinion”: States obliged to prevent climate change harm
In the largest case in its history, the International Court of Justice last week ruled, in a non-binding opinion, that countries are legally obliged to prevent “significant harm to the climate system.”
Mark Wilson•
Why are current humans overwhelmingly the descendants of a late migration out of Africa?
New research provides greater insight into the dynamics of the Out of Africa dispersal of modern humans.
Philip Guelpa•
Former NASA administrator discusses the catastrophic impact to basic science in Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill”
Dan Weedman was a senior official at NASA and the National Science Foundation from 1992 to 2002, including serving as the head of NASA’s Astrophysics Division from 1993 to 1995 and as a program director for the National Science Foundation from 1999 to 2002.
Bryan Dyne•
SpaceX Starship explodes during test amid string of other failures and explosions
While the Apollo program represented American capitalism at its height, the string of disasters of the Starship program represents American capitalism in its death spiral.
Bryan Dyne•
Philip Guelpa•
Kevin Reed•
Benjamin Mateus•
Philip Guelpa•
Philip Guelpa•
Israel’s Netanyahu claims there is “no starvation” in Gaza
Speaking at a conference in Jerusalem on Sunday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said, “There is no starvation in Gaza,” and went on to claim that the viral images circulating around the world of Palestinian children who have starved to death are “false pictures.”
Kevin Reed•
Starmer government threatens September recognition of Palestinian state, allowing ethnic cleansing of Gaza to continue
Starmer’s policy is a recipe for a Palestinian state with no Palestinians in it, the myth of a “land without people” made real.
Robert Stevens•
Israel has starved to death dozens of Palestinian children
Reports and images from Gaza prove that the fascist Israeli government of Netanyahu is systematically using starvation of children as a weapon of war in its campaign to ethnically cleanse the strip of Palestinians.
Kevin Reed•
Zionist regime slaughters over 1,000 Palestinians seeking aid in less than two months
Those lucky enough to escape death directly at the hands of Israel’s genocide face the increasing danger of succumbing to the ravages of disease. According to British charity OXFAM, waterborne diseases have shot up in Gaza over the past three months by 150 percent.
Jordan Shilton•
Oscar Grenfell•
Alex Lantier•
Martin Smith•
Barış Demir, Ulaş Ateşçi•
Sandy English•
Minnesota cops delayed an hour after witnessing Democratic lawmaker shot by Trump fascist
New reporting from the Minnesota Star Tribune raises serious questions about the police response to last month’s targeted assassinations.
Jacob Crosse•
Top Justice Department official meets for 9 hours with Epstein accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell
Trump did not deny he might pardon the convicted sex trafficker, likely in return for statements protecting him and damaging to his political opponents.
Patrick Martin•
Bill Clinton letter included in Epstein’s 50th birthday album, WSJ reports
It is a crisis not only of the Trump administration, but of the entire political system. Prominent Democrats as well as Republicans associated with the sexual predator. The pervasive depravity of the ruling elite reflected in the Epstein affair has been covered up for years.
Barry Grey•
Trump administration releases thousands of files on assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.
The timing of the announcement was undoubtedly tied to the deepening Epstein scandal and Trump’s role.
Fred Mazelis•
Saadiq Shah•
Patrick Martin•
Barry Grey•
Jacob Crosse•
Patrick Martin•
This week in history: July 28-August 3
Republican convention to ratifies Bush-Cheney ticket; Helsinki Accords signed by US, USSR; Belgian general strike ousts Leopold III; British government avoids miners’ strike
In memory of Nathan Steinberger: a fighter against fascism and Stalinism
July 16 marks the 115th anniversary of the birth of Nathan Steinberger, a Jewish socialist and survivor of Stalin's terror in the Soviet Union.
Verena Nees•
80 years after Hitler’s war of annihilation in the east: Germany establishes combat brigade against Russia in Lithuania
With the ceremonial establishment of the permanent combat brigade in Lithuania, the German government under Chancellor Friedrich Merz and Defense Minister Boris Pistorius has opened a new chapter in the revival of German militarism.
Johannes Stern•
Events in Detroit and Los Angeles mark 43rd anniversary of racist murder of Chinese American draftsman Vincent Chin
The UAW, which stoked the anti-Japanese racism that led to Chin’s death, is backing Trump’s tariffs and promoting the lie that Mexican workers are taking American autoworkers' jobs.
Shannon Jones•
Tom Mackaman•
Tom Mackaman•
Helen Halyard•
Joseph Scalice•
David Walsh•
Trump issues executive order expanding bipartisan war on people without homes
The order promotes forced institutionalization while ordering federal funds to be withheld from programs that promote placing people in housing first.
Jacob Crosse•
Columbia University surrenders to Trump in $220 million settlement
The settlement includes broad changes to the university's admissions policies and academic programs, along with a crackdown on student protests.
Our reporter•
ICE gestapo seeks massive expansion of electronic monitoring to hasten mass deportations
Under conditions where ICE agents are disappearing immigrants at worksites, courthouses and hospitals, the agency is seeking to shackle 180,000 people with GPS monitors to more easily track and deport them.
Jacob Crosse•
Interview with University of Nebraska plant pathologist on witch-hunt of Chinese researchers
"The knowledge that we gain and the importance of international relationships in science is critical. And COVID proved that."
Stephen St. Clair•
John Malvar•
Jacob Crosse•
Stephen St. Clair•
Jacob Crosse•
Marc Wells•
Spanish far right intensifies anti-immigrant assaults under PSOE-Sumar government
For two consecutive weekends, fascist groups have mobilized across towns in Spain with the aim of assaulting or lynching immigrants.
Santiago Guillen•
Corbyn’s new left party—What it is and what it isn’t
Millions of workers and youth see the need for a new party to challenge Labour. But this requires a revolutionary socialist and internationalist programme, not a Labour Party Mark II.
Chris Marsden, Thomas Scripps•
Resident doctors speak from picket lines in England as five-day strike begins
A resident doctor in Leeds told WSWS reporters, “If the pillars of the NHS, the staff of the NHS, are not happy, are leaving, are burnt out, it’s only going to have a domino effect, and things are going to start to crumble.”
Our reporters•
Birmingham bin-strike “Mega-picket 2” used by union bureaucracy to plead with Labour’s strike breakers
Far from mobilising workers against this vicious offensive, the event was another token gesture, providing left-talking union officials with political cover while they preach conciliation with Labour.
Tony Robson•
Peter Schwarz•
Nursing Action Committee•
Peter Schwarz•
Peter Schwarz•
John Braddock•
Anti-corruption protests shake Zelensky regime
The escalation of the conflict within the oligarchy and the protests come amidst an intense political crisis and growing social discontent.
Jason Melanovski, Clara Weiss•
Defend Ukrainian Holocaust scholar Marta Havryshko!
The World Socialist Web Site unequivocally condemns the vicious and life-threatening political witch hunt targeting Dr. Marta Havryshko, a scholar of the Nazi Holocaust.
James Clayton •
NATO moves to militarize Rotterdam port in plan for total war on Russia
Press reports make clear these plans for a catastrophic war with Russia are bound up with preparations for military rule against working people in Europe.
Robert Stevens•
Zelensky appoints new prime minister in major government shakeup
The primary aim of the government shakeup is to solidify Kiev’s ties with the Trump administration.
Jason Melanovski•
Robert Stevens•
Jason Melanovski•
Andrea Peters•
Clara Weiss•
Ukrainian journalists•
Buchenwald concentration camp memorial site bans criticism of the Israeli genocide
Declarations that any criticism of Israel's genocide in Gaza amounts to “antisemitism" and represents an abuse of Holocaust remembrance are assuming increasingly bizarre forms.
Sybille Fuchs•
Unite’s motion supporting an arms embargo against Israel will be a dead letter without organised rank-and-file opposition
The resolution is a containment exercise, meant to defuse rank-and-file anger while preserving Unite’s cosy ties with arms manufacturers and the Labour government.
Tony Robson•
Pro-Zionist Board of Deputies of British Jews calls for workplace “antisemitism” training
The report is yet another back-door attempt to outlaw all expression of opposition to Israel’s criminal war of annihilation against the Palestinians, under the guise of “equality and diversity”.
Jean Shaoul•
Students speak out against University of Melbourne’s expulsion of anti-genocide protesters
“It’s horrible. I think it’s a sign of the systematic silencing of students’ voices. Students have always been at the forefront of social movements.”
Our reporters•
Martin Smith•
Steve James•
Martin Smith•
Our reporters•
James Clayton•
Trade deal between the EU and US: Another stage in an escalating trade war
The trade deal agreed on Sunday by US President Donald Trump and European Union (EU) Commission President Ursula von der Leyen marks a further stage in an escalating trade war that is being waged on the backs of the working class and dragging the whole world into the abyss.
Peter Schwarz•
Trump “steamroller” imposes tariff and trade deal on European Union
The EU has agreed to a 15 percent tariff hit and to buy hundreds of billions of dollars’ worth of energy products and military hardware from the US.
Nick Beams•
Trump’s war against the Fed intensifies
While Trump has said he has “no plans” to remove Powell—he has received legal advice that an attempt to do so would most likely fail if it went to the Supreme Court—he has maintained a virtual daily barrage against the Fed chair over his refusal to lower interest rates.
Nick Beams•
Crypto market capitalisation hits $4 trillion
In less than three years, the size of the crypto market has increased five-fold, a rise which has accelerated on the back of Trump’s pledge to make the US the crypto capital of the world.
Nick Beams•
Alex Lantier•
Nick Beams•
Nick Beams•
Nick Beams•
Nick Beams•
1 year since the arrest of the Ukrainian socialist Bogdan Syrotiuk
Exactly one year ago, the Ukrainian socialist and leader of the Young Guard of Bolshevik-Leninists was arrested by the Ukrainian Secret Service.
Young Guard of Bolshevik-Leninists•
European Court of Human Rights accepts case of imprisoned Ukrainian socialist Bogdan Syrotiuk
The acceptance of the case by the court is an important step in the campaign to demand the release of Bogdan.
Clara Weiss•
Left Voice calls for release of Ukrainian Trotskyist Bogdan Syrotiuk
One year after the arrest of Ukrainian Trotskyist Bogdan Syrotiuk, Left Voice, which is affiliated with La Izquierda Diario Network, has issued a statement calling for his release.
Clara Weiss•
A provocation that failed: On Alex Steiner’s attempt to discredit the ICFI’s defense of Ukrainian Trotskyist Bogdan Syrotiuk
The WSWS rejects Alex Steiner's dishonest and evasive explanation of his decision to post false information provided by an anti-communist provocateur, aimed at disrupting the defense of Bogdan Syrotiuk.
WSWS Editorial Board•
Clara Weiss•
WSWS Editorial Board•
Young Guard of Bolshevik-Leninists•
Clara Weiss•
Socialist Equality Party (UK)•
Trump’s tariff threats against Brazil: The necessary socialist response
The GSI calls on the Brazilian working class to respond to the rise of imperialism and war, the threat of fascism and mounting social inequality by fighting alongside its international class brothers and sisters for a global socialist revolution.
Statement of the Socialist Equality Group (Brazil)•
President Gabriel Boric and the rightward shift of the Chilean pseudo-left
What is truly striking about President Gabriel Boric’s fourth and final televised annual address is just how far to the right his pseudo-left coalition government has travelled over three years in office.
Mauricio Saavedra•
Brazil tariffs add new dimension to Trump’s global economic war
The threatened measures against Brazil will add to the growing uncertainty and fears in financial markets as to where the tariff war is leading, causing further questions to be raised about the stability of the US dollar as the global reserve currency.
Nick Beams•
Peru’s far right rams through amnesty for human rights violators
In addition to establishing impunity for police and military killers, the law sets the stage for a rupture with international human rights bodies.
Armando Cruz•
Alexander Fangmann•
Tomas Castanheira, Guilherme Ferreira•
Guilherme Ferreira, Tomas Castanheira•
Claude Delphian•
Cesar Uco•
Kenyan trade union leader urges youth to “stay home and remain silent” after Ruto regime’s massacre of protesters
Atwoli’s speech at the International Trade Union Confederation Africa is a signal that COTU fully endorses the Ruto regime’s shoot-to-kill policy that has claimed the lives of over 160 protesters this year alone, and maimed thousands.
Kipchumba Ochieng•
After over 50 demonstrators gunned down this year, Kenya’s President Ruto orders: “Shoot them in the leg”
This sadistic call for mutilation is a thinly disguised pledge to continue murdering protesters. In total, Ruto’s regime has killed over 140 protestors, left thousands injured and maimed for life, while hundreds have disappeared or been abducted.
Kipchumba Ochieng•
Ruto locks down Nairobi to stop Kenyan protests, police kill 10
The protests mark the 35th anniversary of the 1990 Saba Saba uprising, when sections of the bourgeois opposition led demonstrations demanding multiparty elections and an end to the Western-backed rule of President Daniel arap Moi.
Kipchumba Ochieng•
As the toll of police killings of Gen-Z protesters mounts, Kenyan Interior Minister says “job well done”
The Kenyan government is applauding the brutal repression of protesters, which left at least 16 dead and hundreds injured, and using the violence as a pretext for further repression.
Kipchumba Ochieng•
Kipchumba Ochieng•
Kipchumba Ochieng•
Kipchumba Ochieng•
Kipchumba Ochieng•
Kipchumba Ochieng•
Interview with Swiss filmmaker Christian Frei, writer-director of COVID pandemic documentary Blame: “I wanted to be a filmmaker guided by curiosity, not ideology”
Blame offers a sobering and humanizing portrait of three scientists—Drs. Peter Daszak, Linfa Wang and Zhengli Shi.
Benjamin Mateus•
The surge of XFG (Stratus) as the next dominant variant of Omicron globally
XFG (Stratus) is the latest subvariant of Omicron that is gaining momentum in the summer surge of the pandemic.
Benjamin Mateus•
Measles in the US reaches a 3-decade high
Not only do the disinformation campaign and politicization of public health threaten the gains made over the last six decades, they threaten the entire international effort to control these preventable diseases.
Benjamin Mateus•
New study shows immense impact of public health on life expectancy
A new Yale study demonstrates the important gains made due to public health advances such as antibiotics, vaccines, and smoking cessation, but underscores the stagnation in life expectancy caused by chronic public health defunding.
Benjamin Mateus•
Benjamin Mateus•
Benjamin Mateus•
Benjamin Mateus•
Bill Shaw•
Benjamin Mateus•
The US’s Turkey-backed “economic corridor” plan in the Caucasus targets Russia and Iran
Workers in the Caucasus and around the world need to be alert: Under the guise of an “economic corridor”, preparations are being made for bloody wars that will devastate the region’s peoples as US imperialism pushes forward its predatory plans.
Ozan Kutlucan, Ulaş Ateşçi•
Under extreme heat, Turkey continues to struggle with wildfires
Wildfires are a global problem that requires a global solution. But as with other critical issues, capitalist governments are incapable of providing an international solution.
Barış Demir•
The attack on Leman magazine: A dangerous provocation
The ruling class and the capitalist political establishment will try to exploit any opportunity to suppress the deepening political crisis and divert attention away from the mounting class tensions.
Barış Demir, Ulaş Ateşçi•
Petty-bourgeois nationalism vs. Trotskyism: Brazil’s Workers Cause Party (PCO) defends Erdoğan’s repression in Turkey–Part 2
Slandering the SEG and the mass movement of the working class and youth in Turkey, the PCO openly advocates a dictatorship by President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.
Tomas Castanheira, Ulas Atesci•
Tomas Castanheira, Ulas Atesci•
Bahadır Çelik•
Hakan Özal•
Jordan Shilton•
Ozan Özgür•
2025 New Year Statement
Socialism against oligarchy, fascism and war
Underlying the interlinked crises of the capitalist system is an oligarchy that subordinates all of society to profit and the accumulation of personal wealth. The fight against the oligarchy is by its very nature a revolutionary task.
May Day 2025: Socialism Against Fascism and War
The WSWS is posting here both the video and text of the speech by World Socialist Web Site International Editorial Board chairman David North, which opened the International May Day 2025 Online Rally.
David North•
May Day 2025
Join the Trotskyist movement to fight for socialism
This summation was given by Socialist Equality Party (UK) assistant national secretary Thomas Scripps at the International May Day 2025 Online Rally, held Saturday, May 3.
Thomas Scripps•
May Day 2025
The socialist response to the breakdown in Canada-US relations
This speech was given by Keith Jones, National Secretary of the Socialist Equality Party (Canada), at the International May Day 2025 Online Rally, held Saturday, May 3.
Keith Jones•
May Day 2025
Unite the New Zealand and Pacific working class against war!
This speech was given by Tom Peters, a leading member of the Socialist Equality Group in New Zealand, at the International May Day 2025 Online Rally, held Saturday, May 3.
Tom Peters•
Deepal Jayasekera, M. Thevarajah•
Max Boddy•
Evan Blake•
Tomas Castanheira•
Joseph Kishore•
Wolfgang Weber (1949-2024): A revolutionary intellectual and fighter for Trotskyism
Wolfgang devoted over 50 years of his life to building the Trotskyist party and fought tirelessly politically and theoretically for the independence of the working class.
Nanda Wickremesinghe (1939-2025): A lifelong Trotskyist leader
Nanda Wickremesinghe’s political life as a Trotskyist spanned nearly seven decades. Right until the end, despite ailments that forced him to withdraw from active party work, our comrade had never lost his revolutionary spirit.
Socialist Equality Party (Sri Lanka)•
Sri Lanka: Hundreds pay their last respects to veteran Trotskyist Nanda Wickremesinghe
“Comrades, including Wicks, rejected the populist petty-bourgeois alternatives and turned to the International Committee, to the Sri Lankan and international working class and to building the revolutionary leadership of the working class.”
Our reporters•
International condolences on the death of Sri Lankan Trotskyist Nanda Wickremesinghe
“Comrade Wicks brought to the struggle for Trotskyism an immense array of political gifts. Possessed of an extraordinary intellectual curiosity, Wicks was immersed in the history of the international Trotskyist movement”—David North
Our reporter•
Book Review
Biography as demonology: Aidan Beatty’s The Party is Always Right: The Untold Story of Gerry Healy and British Trotskyism
Aidan Beatty's new book is not a biography, but rather a political diatribe against Gerry Healy and Trotskyism.
David North•
“I’ve been very impressed by the articles you’ve published”
Historian Kerby Miller discusses Aidan Beatty and the writing of Irish history
Miller, the preeminent American historian of Irish history, was recently interviewed by the World Socialist Web Site.
Tom Mackaman, Jordan Shilton•
Socialist Equality Party exposes Aidan Beatty’s falsifications in Institute of Historical Research seminar
After Beatty delivered a lengthy diatribe, Barbara Slaughter, David North and Eric London exposed his slanderous allegations against Gerry Healy and the history of the Trotskyist movement.
Slander vs. biography: Aidan Beatty’s falsification of Gerry Healy’s family and childhood in a decade of rebellion and civil war
This essay is devoted to a detailed review of Gerry Healy’s family background and youth, based on research conducted in Ireland, including visits to the relevant archives in Dublin and in Galway where the Healy family lived.
Thomas Scripps•
David North•
Tom Mackaman•
Andrea Peters•
David North•
Steve Long•
The Gaza genocide and the death of Aaron Bushnell: What are the political lessons?
This lecture was given by World Socialist Web Site International Editorial Board Chairman David North at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor on Tuesday, March 12.
Australian Electoral Commission blocks evidence on its SEP ballot access ban
The AEC’s escalated reasons for refusing to release the information—claiming that it would not be in the “public interest” to do so—further underscore the anti-democratic nature of its ban on the SEP registration.
Mike Head•
The significance of the Socialist Equality Party’s vote and campaign in the Australian election
The vote for the SEP was small, but significant, revealing a growing constituency for a revolutionary, socialist alternative to the program of war, austerity and authoritarianism advanced by Labor and the entire capitalist establishment.
Max Boddy, Oscar Grenfell•
The Australian election, global opposition to Trump and the need for a socialist perspective
The election was marked by a mass repudiation of Trumpism, but within the framework of parliamentary politics, the outcome is a pro-business, pro-war Labor government that will collaborate with Trump.
Oscar Grenfell•
Liberal leadership contest marked by factional divisions after Australian election rout
The much diminished party-room was split down the middle, presaging further ructions.
Oscar Grenfell•
Mike Head•
Mike Head•
Oscar Grenfell•
Our reporters•
Oscar Grenfell•
84 years since the assassination of Leon Trotsky
Trotsky's assassination was the greatest political crime of the 20th century. Alongside Vladimir Lenin, Trotsky was the leader of the 1917 October revolution in Russia, which led to the establishment of the first workers’ state in history, and the preeminent strategist of world socialist revolution.
Independent soil testing finds staggering levels of toxic contamination in Los Angeles fire zones
Testing shows toxic heavy metals like lead, arsenic, and mercury at levels hazardous to human health, with children and workers bearing the brunt of the risk.
Marc Wells•
The Los Angeles fires: How the Democrats facilitated utility companies’ criminal neglect
Emerging evidence suggests that Assembly Bill 1054, passed by the Democratic Party-dominated legislature and signed by California Governor Gavin Newsom in 2019, played a crucial role in this catastrophe.
Marc Wells•
California governor makes significant concessions to corporate interests in rebuilding wildfire-hit areas
Newsom’s suspension of California’s landmark environmental regulations to fast-track utility infrastructure rebuilding in wildfire-affected areas, is a direct attack on democracy, environmental safeguards and working-class communities.
Marc Wells•
Signs point to Southern California Edison’s negligence and Democrats’ complicity in Los Angeles fire disaster
Edison prioritized profits over maintenance and fire prevention, endangering lives and communities.
Marc Wells•
Marc Wells•
Marc Wells•
Marc Wells•
Kimie Saito, Emily Ochiai, Jacob Crosse•
Marc Wells•
One Hundred Years Since the Death of Lenin
January 21 marked 100 years since the death of Vladimir Lenin in 1924. This page includes a collection of essays reviewing the life and ideas of the great Marxist theoretician, founder of the Bolshevik Party, and co-leader of the Russian Revolution.
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Defend University of London SOAS students, targeted for opposing genocide!
If these measures are not defeated, universities will become institutions in which freedom of speech and the right to political association and protest are obliterated.
International Youth and Students for Social Equality (UK)•
Students speak out against University of Melbourne’s expulsion of anti-genocide protesters
“It’s horrible. I think it’s a sign of the systematic silencing of students’ voices. Students have always been at the forefront of social movements.”
Our reporters•
Republican congressmen escalate witch-hunt against Chinese researchers at the University of Michigan
The letters mark a significant escalation of the persecution of U-M postdoctoral researchers and Chinese citizens Yunqing Jian and Chengxuan Han.
Stephen St. Clair•
No censorship of anti-war events! Defend freedom of expression at Berlin’s Humboldt University!
While the German government is massively rearming and reintroducing conscription, Humboldt University administration has banned the IYSSE from holding anti-war meetings on campus.
International Youth and Students for Social Equality (IYSSE)•
International Youth and Students for Social Equality•
International Youth and Students for Social Equality (Australia)•
Statement of the International Youth and Students for Social Equality (IYSSE)•
David Walsh•
Our reporter•
The case of Nancy Wohlforth, a.k.a. Fields, and the origins of Security and the Fourth International
On Tuesday, May 20, a memorial for Nancy Wohlforth was held in the national headquarters of the AFL-CIO. Notably absent was any reference to her central role in an attempt to destroy the Workers League, forerunner of the Socialist Equality Party.
David North•
The fight against fascism requires a fight against capitalism and war!
Having twice voted with the Alternative for Germany (AfD) in favor of a brutal policy of sealing the borders against refugees, the conservative Christian Democratic Union/Christian Social Union (CDU/CSU) and Free Democratic Party (FDP) parliamentary groups in the Bundestag are prepared to accept the far-right party as a government partner.
Sozialistische Gleichheitspartei•
Sozialistische Gleichheitspartei slate in Berlin certified for the federal election
The SGP is standing in the election to oppose war, fascism and genocide.
Tamino Dreisam•
Sozialistische Gleichheitspartei appeal in the German federal election
Oppose imperialist war through the fight for socialism!
The Sozialistische Gleichheitspartei (Socialist Equality Party, SGP) is contesting the federal elections to oppose the all-party coalition advocating war and austerity.
Sozialistische Gleichheitspartei•
Tony Robson•
Barbara Slaughter•
Thomas Scripps•
Chris Marsden•
Thomas Scripps•
WSWS hosts webinar with Momodou Taal, target of Trump’s efforts to deport anti-war students
Situating the attacks on Momodou Taal and other student activists in their political and historical context, the speakers urged viewers to become active in the struggle to mobilize the working class against fascism and war.
Evan Blake•
Sounding the Alarm and The Logic of Zionism: A discussion with David North on his two recent books
This discussion with David North, chairman of the World Socialist Web Site International Editorial Board, will focus on his two most recent books, Sounding the Alarm: Socialism Against War and The Logic of Zionism: From Nationalist Myth to the Gaza Genocide.
Of, by and for the oligarchy: Trump’s cabinet & the restructuring of the American state
The election of Trump and his cabinet of reactionaries signifies the brutal restructuring of global society being carried out by the financial oligarchy.
The election debacle and the fight against dictatorship
The election of Donald Trump is a critical event whose political repercussions will be felt throughout the world. This fascist demagogue has won the 2024 election with both an electoral and popular vote majority. He will be re-installed in the White House on January 20, 2025.
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COVID, Capitalism, and Class War: A Social and Political Chronology of the Pandemic
Mehring Books, the publishing arm of the Socialist Equality Party (US), is proud to announce the publication of Volume 1 of COVID, Capitalism, and Class War: A Social and Political Chronology of the Pandemic, a compilation of the World Socialist Web Site's coverage of this global crisis.
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Premiere in Berlin of a new documentary–Julian Assange and the Dark Secrets of War
The most telling episodes of the film include the testimony of Ethan McCord who relates that witnessing the savagery of the American military on that day in Iraq had changed his life forever.
Stefan Steinberg•
Julian Assange delivers first speech since release from UK prison: “I pleaded guilty to journalism”
Assange told the parliamentary assembly of the Council of Europe: “I am not free today because the system worked, I am free today after years of incarceration because I pled guilty to journalism.”
Laura Tiernan•
Australian spooks and their media mouthpieces bemoan Assange’s freedom
The complaints have a pathetic character to them, but also underscore the fact that the assault on democratic rights associated with the persecution of Assange persists and deepens.
Oscar Grenfell•
The Australian Labor Party’s record in the Assange case
The Australian government's involvement in the plea deal arrangements was the result of mass popular pressure. It followed years of Labor actively assisting the persecution of Assange.
Oscar Grenfell•
Oscar Grenfell•
Statement of the World Socialist Web Site editorial board•
Oscar Grenfell•
Thomas Scripps•
Oscar Grenfell•
Seminal documents of the Soviet Trotskyist movement from the early 1930s published for the first time
Published for the first time 90 years after they were written, the documents are an irrefutable vindication of the century-long struggle by the Trotskyist movement against Stalinism and for historical truth.
Clara Weiss•
Analyzing a World in Chaos from an Island of Tranquility
This speech was given by David North at the second international commemoration of the work of Leon Trotsky on Büyükada (Prinkipo), Turkey, during the first period of his exile from the Soviet Union between 1929 and 1933.
David North•
A reply to an anarchist’s falsification of the Leon Trotsky commemoration on Prinkipo
The event was covered by many national and local media outlets and widely discussed on social media before and after the event in Turkey. However, a former Maoist and current anarchist published an article on his website denouncing and misrepresenting David North’s remarks.
Ulaş Ateşçi•
On the anniversary of the assassination of Leon Trotsky
Eighty-four years ago today, on August 20, 1940, Leon Trotsky was assassinated by an agent of the Stalinist secret police, the GPU, in his villa in Coyoacan, Mexico, where he spent the final three years of his life as a political exile.
David North•
David North•
David North•
Eric London•
David North•
David North•
Opening report to the Eighth Congress of the Socialist Equality Party (US)
We are publishing here the opening report to the Eighth Congress of the Socialist Equality Party (US), given by David North, the national chairman of the SEP. The congress was held from August 4 to August 9, 2024.
David North•
Report to the SEP (US) Eighth National Congress
16 years since the Founding Congress of the Socialist Equality Party
We are publishing here the report to the Eighth Congress of the Socialist Equality Party (US) given by Joseph Kishore, the national secretary of the SEP.
Joseph Kishore•
H5N1 Bird flu, climate change, and the social rights of the working class
The threat of pandemics and the deepening climate crisis raise existential concerns for all life and well-being on the planet, with capitalism bringing the world to the brink of annihilation.
Benjamin Mateus, Bryan Dyne•
Report to the SEP (US) Eighth National Congress
The barbarism of “forever COVID” and the fight for socialist public health
We are publishing here the report to the Eighth Congress of the Socialist Equality Party (US) given by Evan Blake. The congress was held from August 4 to August 9, 2024.
Evan Blake•
Jerry White•
Clara Weiss•
Tom Hall•
Tom Carter•
Tom Mackaman•
For a rank-and-file investigation into the death of Stellantis worker Ronald Adams Sr.!
An inquiry independent of Stellantis, the United Auto Workers (UAW) apparatus and state authorities is essential to uncover the truth, expose systemic safety violations and prevent future deaths.
International Workers Alliance of Rank-and-File Committees•
UAW pressing Stellantis to “finish their retooling” of Dundee plant as cover-up of Ronald Adams’ death continues
In a June 5 letter, UAW Stellantis Department head Kevin Gotinsky says nothing about the death of the 63-year-old skilled trades worker.
Jerry White•
Hundreds attend Detroit funeral for Stellantis Dundee Engine worker Ronnie Adams
The 63-year-old skilled tradesman was crushed to death by an automated crane at the Dundee Engine Complex in southeast Michigan on April 7.
Jerry White•
Trump continues Biden’s stonewalling of court-ordered investigation into UAW elections
It is more than nine months since a federal judge ruled in favor of Mack Trucks worker and socialist candidate Will Lehman, ordering the Department of Labor to revisit his challenge to the fraudulent 2022–23 UAW election.
Joseph Kishore•
Jerry White•
Logan Buchko, Shannon Jones•
Tim Rivers, Shannon Jones•
Our reporters•
Ludwig Weller•
Helen Halyard (1950-2023), a tribute to a life dedicated to the victory of world socialism
We are publishing here the tribute given by David North to Helen Halyard, a leading member of the Socialist Equality Party and the International Committee of the Fourth International for more than half a century, who died suddenly at the age of 73 on November 28. North’s remarks opened a memorial meeting for Helen held Sunday, December 3.
David North•
Remarks by David North at the conclusion of the international memorial meeting for Helen Halyard
We are publishing here the summation given by David North to the memorial meeting for Comrade Helen Halyard held on December 3.
David North•
“Building the world party was Helen’s goal in life, to which she made an indelible contribution”
We are publishing here the tribute to Helen Halyard written by Patrick Martin, a member of the US editorial board of the World Socialist Web Site and a member of the Workers League and Socialist Equality Party for 52 years, and Esther Galen, a member of the Workers League and Socialist Equality Party for 53 years.
Patrick Martin, Esther Galen•
Tribute to Helen: Beverly Lozano, a supporter from California
A tribute to Helen Halyard written by Beverly Lozano, a supporter of the WSWS.
Beverly Lozano•
Patrick Martin•
Richard Phillips•
Ed Bergonzi•
Paul Sherman•
Nancy Hanover•
Leon Trotsky and the Struggle for Socialism in the Twenty-First Century
The essays in this book, though written over the span of more than 40 years, are connected by a central argument: Leon Trotsky was the most significant figure in the history of socialism during the first four decades of the twentieth century, and his legacy remains the critical and indispensable theoretical and political foundation of the ongoing contemporary struggle for the victory of world socialism.
Order your print or epub version of the book from Mehring Books today.
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Report to Sri Lanka meetings
Imperialism, the genocide in Gaza, and the world struggle for socialism
Socialist Equality Party (US) National Secretary Joseph Kishore delivered the following report to a meeting titled “Leon Trotsky and the Struggle for Socialism in the 21st Century” in Colombo on December 10.
Joseph Kishore•
University of Michigan IYSSE protests attack by pro-government thugs on Sri Lankan SEP members
We are publishing here a letter being sent by the International Youth and Students for Social Equality (IYSSE) at the University of Michigan condemning the violent attack on two members of the Socialist Equality Party (SEP) in Sri Lanka by pro-government thugs.
International Youth and Students for Social Equality at U-M•
Magistrate court hearing on violent assault on Sri Lankan SEP members
While police have visited the crime scene and recorded witness statements they requested more time to obtain hospital medical reports.
Our reporters•
Academics denounce pro-government thug attack on Sri Lankan SEP members
The SEP is calling on all those who are concerned to defend democratic rights of freedom of expression to register their opposition by sending protest letters to the relevant authorities.
Our reporters•
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Statement of the Editorial Board
For a Global Workers’ Inquest into the COVID-19 Pandemic
The Inquest is necessary to break through the cover-up, lies and misinformation that have been used to justify policies responsible for the avoidable deaths of millions.
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DOJ settlement with Ashli Babbitt’s family: A political gift to the fascist right
The $5 million payout to the family of a fascist insurrectionist, alongside Trump’s blanket pardons and the Democrats’ capitulation, underscores the ruling class’s turn toward dictatorship.
Max Jones•
Wisconsin documents reveal details of strategy behind Donald Trump’s 2020 fake elector scheme
A trove of court documents released on Monday show Wisconsin attorney Kenneth Chesebro and former judge Jim Troupis were instrumental in formulating the strategy of Donald Trump to overturn the 2020 elections through court cases that generated “a cloud of confusion” combined with the appointment of “alternative” electors in seven key states.
Kevin Reed•
Appellate court rejects Trump’s claim that he cannot be prosecuted for seeking to overthrow the 2020 election
The Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia ruled against Donald Trump's assertion of absolute immunity from criminal prosecution for seeking to overthrow the 2020 election.
John Burton•
Third Trump coup lawyer pleads guilty and agrees to testify in Georgia election case
Jenna Ellis is the third lawyer and fourth defendant to plead guilty in relation to the conspiracy to overturn the 2020 presidential election in Georgia.
Jacob Crosse•
Kevin Reed•
Jacob Crosse•
Barry Grey•
Jacob Crosse•
Jacob Crosse•
25 years since the death of Vadim Rogovin
Vadim Z. Rogovin (10 May 1937 – 18 September 1998) was a Soviet Marxist sociologist and historian. Working in close collaboration with the International Committee of the Fourth International, Rogovin helped lay the foundations for the Trotskyist movement’s fight against the post-Soviet school of historical falsification, including in his six-volume Was There an Alternative? This page collects major essays and commemorations on Rogovin as well as links to his own writings.
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Former Montgomery, Alabama teacher testifies about the forced reopening of schools in 2020-21
In this interview, Tynisa Williams, former teacher in Montgomery, Alabama, describes the experience of being forced to teach in-person in the fall of 2020 and winter of 2021. She and her coworkers waged a courageous struggle to stop the deadly return to in-person learning that cost the lives of eight educators in the district.
Emma Arceneaux, Evan Blake•
Accomplices to social murder
The international pseudo-left and the lifting of Zero-COVID in China: Part 1
The pseudo-left’s hostility to public health and support for imperialism found sharp expression in their universal demand—echoing that of the Western corporate media and political establishment—that China abandon its Zero-COVID strategy.
Evan Blake•
Accomplices to social murder
The international pseudo-left and the lifting of Zero-COVID in China: Part 2
The pseudo-left’s hostility to public health and support for imperialism found its sharpest expression in their demand—echoing that of the Western corporate media and political establishment—that China abandon its Zero-COVID strategy.
Evan Blake•
Immunocompromised mother in Manhattan speaks to Global Workers’ Inquest into the COVID-19 Pandemic
Melanie, whose children attend public schools in New York City, spoke to the WSWS about the toll the “let it rip” policy toward the pandemic has taken on her and her family.
Tim Avery•
George Kirby•
Tom Peters•
Dylan Lubao•
Evan Blake•
Tom Peters•
The definitive left-wing critique of the 1619 Project. This volume includes interviews with eminent historians and essays from the World Socialist Web Site exposing the New York Times’ racialist falsification of history.
The Wuhan “lab leak” fraud: A political witch-hunt against science and public health
The hearings before the House subcommittee have been a bipartisan effort to foment anti-Chinese hysteria.
Benjamin Mateus•
Democrats join with Republican fascists to witch-hunt scientist Peter Daszak
During Wednesday’s House Subcommittee on COVID-19 with Dr. Peter Daszak, president of EcoHealth Alliance, Democrats joined ranks with fascistic Republican colleagues to promote the Wuhan lab-leak lies.
Benjamin Mateus•
The Wuhan lab lie: “Weapons of mass destruction” redux
In an uncanny instance of history repeating itself, the lies used to justify the 2003 invasion of Iraq based on false claims about “weapons of mass destruction” are being used to promote the United States’ unprecedented military buildup around China.
Andre Damon•
A discredited conspiracy theory about the origins of COVID-19
The Wuhan Lab Leak slander being resurrected to bolster US war drive against China
The Wall Street Journal disclosed that the Department of Energy has shifted its opinion on the origin of the coronavirus to it being most likely a result of a lab leak. However, unnamed sources who have read the report indicate the evidence is of low confidence.
Benjamin Mateus•
Benjamin Mateus•
Andre Damon•
Andre Damon•
Benjamin Mateus•
Nikole Hannah-Jones’ Center for Democracy and Journalism: Racialist politics in the service of US imperialism
After one year, the Center’s main accomplishment has been to deepen the mutual embrace between sections of the upper middle class and the military-intelligence apparatus.
Dominic Gustavo•
The 1619 Project and the New York Times’ promotion of the racialist ideology of Ukrainian nationalism
The racialist historical revisionism of the Times and the racialist ideology of the Ukrainian neo-Nazis share a common premise: the mythological reimagining of history as a struggle of “the nation” and “the race.”
Tom Carter•
Oppose political censorship of antiwar views at Howard University!
We call on all students, faculty and staff members at Howard University to oppose this censorship and demand that the IYSSE be allowed to hold its planned meeting on campus.
International Youth and Students for Social Equality•
Marcus Garvey and the reactionary logic of racialist politics
More than one hundred years after the formation of his Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA), Marcus Garvey's legacy remains highly relevant in the struggle to overcome efforts to divide the working class along racial lines.
Lawrence Porter•
Dominic Gustavo•
Tom Mackaman•
Douglas Lyons•
Tom Mackaman•
Tom Mackaman•
Wije Dias: A fighter for Trotskyism (1941-2022)
Comrade Wije Dias, the longtime general secretary of the Socialist Equality Party (Sri Lanka), died in Colombo on July 27, 2022. This exhibit includes two tributes to Wije by WSWS International Editorial Board Chairman David North as well as a selection of Wije’s most significant articles and speeches.
The arrest of journalist Richard Medhurst and the fight to defend democratic rights
Medhurst said of his detention at the UK’s Heathrow Airport, “I believe I'm the first journalist to be arrested under this provision of the Terrorism Act.”
Robert Stevens•
Instagram shutters account of Palestinian publisher Quds News Network
Instagram shut the account without explanation. Quds is one of the most popular Palestinian networks and has featured on-the-spot exposures of the war crimes in Gaza.
Kevin Reed•
WSWS readers demand Facebook reverse ban on SEG in New Zealand
Readers have expressed outrage at the social media company’s anti-democratic censorship of the Trotskyist Socialist Equality Group in New Zealand.
Facebook blocks Socialist Equality Group in New Zealand from advertising
We call on readers to oppose Facebook’s blatant political censorship of the Trotskyist movement in New Zealand.
Tom Peters•
Kevin Reed•
Kevin Reed•
Kevin Reed•
Dominic Gustavo•
Eric Ludlow•
Forty-five years since the assassination of Tom Henehan (1951-1977): A Revolutionary Life
October 16 marked the 45th anniversary of the assassination of Tom Henehan, a member of the Political Committee of the Workers League—the predecessor of the Socialist Equality Party in the US. We are republishing here a tribute delivered by David North at a meeting in 1997.
Over 80,000 sign petition against NYU Langone’s termination of a pro-Palestinian resident physician
Over 80,000 people have signed a petition opposing the anti-democratic termination of Dr. Zaki Masoud by NYU Langone.
John Conrad•
Report exposes fraudulent antisemitism accusations at UK universities
The report concludes that critics of the Israeli state, advocates for Palestinian rights and those teaching the history and politics of the region have been “subjected to false allegations of antisemitism.”
Thomas Scripps•
An interview with Harvard anthropology Professor John Comaroff—Part one
We spoke recently to South African-born John Comaroff, the Hugh K. Foster Professor of African and African-American studies and of Anthropology, and Oppenheimer Research Fellow in African Studies, Harvard University.
David Walsh•
Harvard UAW, pseudo-left groups organize provocation against professor John Comaroff
The right-wing witch-hunt of John Comaroff at Harvard University continued Tuesday with a stage-managed protest during his first class of the semester.
Mike Ingram•
Socialist Equality Party (US), International Youth and Students for Social Equality•
David Walsh•
David Walsh•
James McDonald, Sam Wayne•
Mike Head•
Israel murders 274 Gazans in a further escalation of the genocidal war
For a demonstration on July 24 in Washington D.C. to protest congressional invitation for Netanyahu
The World Socialist Web Site calls on workers and youth to respond to Congress’ invitation to the war criminal Netanyahu with a demonstration in Washington D.C.
Statement of the World Socialist Web Site Editorial Board•
Leaders of London rally issue dead-end call for Sunak and Starmer to reverse support for Israel’s genocide
The determined opposition of workers and young people is being corralled into a dead-end, with calls that the only way to stop Israel is to put pressure on the Tories and, above all, the Labour Party of genocide apologist in chief, Sir Keir Starmer.
Robert Stevens•
TikTok bans video demanding Bogdan Syrotiuk’s freedom, branding it “hate speech”
The TikTok ban comes just days after the Zelensky regime issued an order banning access to the World Socialist Web Site across Ukraine. The order was issued by the Ukrainian State Special Communications Service, a wing of the country’s military-intelligence apparatus.
Our reporters•
Australian government, opposition launch hysterical attacks on the Greens over Gaza genocide
The Greens are serving as something of a placeholder, with the real target the mass opposition to the genocide among workers and young people.
Oscar Grenfell•
Alex Lantier •
Our reporters•
Andre Damon•
Shannon Jones•
Robert Stevens•
Timeline of thirty years of war: The historical background to the US-NATO conflict with Russia
This interactive timeline presents some of the most important events that have brought humanity to the brink of World War III. It includes links to critical articles and statements produced by the International Committee of the Fourth International over the past 30 years.
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Brian Goldstone’s There Is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America: Working class families sliding gradually or dropping suddenly into homelessness
Goldstone constructs a damning brief. Though he limits his condemnation to the American housing system, the evidence he presents belies this limitation and makes an airtight case against capitalism itself.
James McDonald•
Mario Kessler's Socialists against Antisemitism and Leon Trotsky on Antisemitism
The Marxist movement and the fight against antisemitism and Zionism
Kessler's books provide irrefutable evidence that the most powerful and consistent critique of both antisemitism and Zionism emanated from the revolutionary internationalist wing in the workers’ movement.
Clara Weiss•
A Different Kind of Power whitewashes Jacinda Ardern’s right-wing, pro-imperialist government
The much-publicised memoir by New Zealand’s former prime minister uses empty platitudes about the importance of “kindness” and “empathy” to cover up the right-wing record of her Labour Party government from 2017 to 2023.
Tom Peters•
A conversation with Blake Bailey, Philip Roth biographer and author of Canceled Lives: My Father, My Scandal, and Me: “I said ... I’m not going to take this lying down”
Bailey has decided to fight and set the record straight. This is an entirely welcome and healthy development, a contribution to the cleansing of the cultural atmosphere.
David Walsh•
Thomas Scripps•
Eric London•
James McDonald•
David Walsh•
David Walsh•
The fight for Trotskyism and the political foundations of the World Socialist Web Site
The WSWS is publishing the report delivered by David North 25 years ago, on February 1, 1997, motivating the proposal to end publication of the SEP’s printed newspaper and replace it with an international website; as well as North’s reply to the National Committee ‘s discussion of the proposal.
Capitulation at Columbia: The Democrats enable Trump’s assault on free speech
The university’s prostration before Trump is a warning that no section of the ruling class is capable of defending democratic rights.
Daniel de Vries•
The Thane of Bluster greets sycophants Starmer and Von der Leyen in Scotland
The US President's grotesqueries must not conceal the importance of the issues discussed between Trump, von der Leyen and Starmer, which pose a grave threat to working people all over the world.
Chris Marsden, Thomas Scripps•
New COVID-19 variants surge as Kennedy escalates war on science
The Trump administration is slashing health agency budgets and firing vaccine experts as highly transmissible variants threaten to double daily infections within a month.
Benjamin Mateus, Evan Blake•
Ronald Adams Sr. and Brayan Neftali Otoniel Canu Joj: Workers’ lives sacrificed for profit
The sole reason for continued industrial slaughter, year after year, is the capitalist system. It has become an absolute barrier to human progress.
Tom Hall•
Clara Weiss•
WSWS Editorial Board•
Jacob Crosse•
Patrick Martin•
WSWS Editorial Board•
WSWS Review
Thirty years since the dissolution of the USSR
Review the most critical essays, lectures and letters produced by the ICFI in the course of its intervention in response to the crisis of Stalinism and the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991.
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Pike River movie undermined by glaring omissions
The film concerns New Zealand’s worst industrial accident—the gas explosions at the Pike River coal mine that killed 29 miners in November 2010.
Richard Phillips•
Families continue fight to expose cover-up of Pike River mine disaster
Families of some of the 29 workers killed in the 2010 disaster in New Zealand are seeking to expose the full truth about how the prosecution of Pike River Coal’s chief executive Peter Whittall was stifled.
Tom Peters•
14 years after New Zealand’s Pike River mine disaster, no justice for victims’ families
For 14 years, successive governments, state agencies, the judicial system and the union bureaucracy have worked to prevent anyone being brought to justice for the avoidable deaths of 29 workers in Pike River Coal’s underground mine.
Tom Peters•
New Zealand: Court action continues over Pike River mine disaster
Families of some of the 29 workers killed in the 2010 coal mine disaster are continuing their fight for answers about why authorities dropped charges against Pike River Coal chief executive Peter Whittall over the extremely dangerous conditions in the mine.
Tom Peters•
Tom Peters•
Tom Peters•
Jack Wang•
Tom Peters•
Tom Peters•